I'm setting up this blog as a vehicle of communication between all of us on the topic of CPD - continuous professional development. It will be somewhere for you to share with other teachers on the staff things you have been doing in terms of CPD. At the moment anyone can read it and make comments but only the staff can write to it. If you want to, we can set up individual blogs for each of you that only you and I can see.
The advantage of this rather than just emails etc is that you can look at it any time you go online and an ongoing record is kept of what has been going on.
Add comments to postings as comments rather than a new posting so that they stay with the original post. But when talking about something else, start a new posting.
So what can you write about on the blog? Well, anything really that you think the rest of the staff would be interested in, but there a few ideas below:
- Something interesting that happens in class that is worth exploring over a period of time. Could be a student reaction or something you try out or anything really
- information about any classroom research you do
- write about any articles you read that you find interesting
- any thoughts you have about things we discuss in TD sessions
- reports on any training sessions you go to
- reports on any new books you look at or try out
- your own thought on any aspect of teaching you would like to share with the rest of us
- links to anything you see online that would be interesting for others to read
Just as a start, and ready for next week's TD session on using blogs as a classroom tool, I'm going to give you a link to an article on the British Council website.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml
Happy reading
3 comments:
Hi Jackie
Thanks for inviting me to join the Eckersley Blog. I do worry that you posted your message at four in the morning. I hope you weren't still at work. Brookes has started up again, and there's more to be done and read and written than ever. But it's all very interesting and enjoyable, and I have a great bunch of colleagues. Also pleased that I got decent grades for my assessed modules of last semester. Best wishes to all.
Bye for now
Mark
Hi there Mark
No, I didnt leave the post at four in the morning. Just not sure how to change the time settings.
It would be really good if you could leave the odd post relating to things you are doing on your MA. It might give us things to think about & discuss.
Hi Jackie
I liked your ideas to use the blog as a way to promote CPD and for teachers to share ideas. I will definitely contribute and thanks for the invitation.
Cheers
Suzi
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